Last month, reports emerged stating that Paige's wrestling career in the WWE was over as she will not be cleared to return to compete in the ring by the company again following a neck injury at a live event in December.

Paige has not wrestled since she injured her neck during a six-woman tag team match of herself, Mandy Rose, and Sonya Deville vs Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Mickie James at a WWE live event at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island at the end of last year.

WWE announced that The Raven-Haired Renegade would not be able to compete in the Women's Royal Rumble due to her neck injury, but they are yet to comment on the retirement rumors, or if Paige will be cleared to compete again.

Many fans have drawn similarities between Paige's injury and Edge's neck injury which forced him to retire following WrestleMania 27 in 2011. The Rated-R Superstar had been diagnosed with cervical spinal stenosis, and doctors refused to clear him due to the risk of neck-down paralysis or even death should he take a hard enough fall.

Speaking recently to CBS Sports' Chuck Carroll, the WWE Hall of Famer was asked if he was given the opportunity to do so, what advice he would give to Paige about dealing with such an injury that forces you to retire from the ring.

Edge said: "You know, I don’t know. It is tough, because if that is the case, and she does have to retire… I haven’t heard anything past the initial speculation… it is such a different case, because when I retired, I was 37.

"I had accomplished everything and then some I set out to do within that industry, so there wasn’t anything else besides wanting to help some younger talent and teach them. That was what the next mode of my career was going to be. So it is a different scenario.

"I guess all I can say, if that is the case, is she did a lot. She got a lot accomplished. She won the women’s championship, and she stood out. You just try and focus on the positives instead of drawing on the negatives. That’s really all you can do in that kind of situation.

"But I don’t know if there’s a magic elixir or the perfect sentence you can say to make that easier to swallow."

Fans will be holding onto the small thread of hope that Paige will be able to compete for the WWE again, but, as of writing, it doesn't look that promising.